Delores repeatedly showed Curtis,her two-month-old,a picture of his grandfather.She noticed that Curtis seemed to become less interested in looking at the picture each time she showed it to him.Then she showed Curtis a picture of his grandmother,and he looked at it as long as he had first looked at his grandfather's picture.Curtis's loss of interest in his grandfather's picture demonstrates

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Curtis's decreasing interest in the picture after repeated viewings is an example of habituation of attention, which is the diminishing of a response to a repeated stimulus. The fact that he showed renewed interest when shown a different picture (of his grandmother) suggests that it was not due to a conditioned response or operant response. Recovery from habituation would involve regaining interest in a previously habituated stimulus after a period of time has elapsed.

Delores Repeatedly Showed Curtis,her Two-Month-Old,a Picture of His Grandfather